Improvement in tenter-bars for cloth



N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHxNGToN. D Cv i eine nl 5mm @anni @tibia New Letters Patent No, 83,894, dated November 10, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN TENTER-BARS FOR CLOTH.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettere Patent and making part of the same.

' bars, hinged together as shown at b. These bars move up and down on the guides o, tig. 2, to accommodate themselves to the Width of the cloth to be put on, and are balanced by the cords, with weights d attached, as shown, running over the pulleys e, at the top, which -rnake it easy to move the bars d up and down.

The mode of using this device may be as follows: The cloth is st fastened at one end to the perpendiculal-bar f, on the hooks shown by the dots thereon, and then to the movable perpendicular bar y, in like manner at the other end, after which, a few turns of the Windlass 'istretches the cloth longitudinally as much asis desired. The upper edge of the cloth is then hooked on t'o the upper stationary horizontal bar l, and the lower edge to the upper movable horizontal bar a, When the same is forced down by the operator as much as is desired, said bar being held down by means of the ratchet on and pawls n. The same operation may be repeated With reference to the lower section or bar a, when two pieces of cloth are tol be dried at the same time.

It is intended, if desired, te have a like set of movable bars on the opposite side, thereby affording double the facilities for the purposesdescribed.

Having thus described my invention,.

What I claim as new in my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the movable horizontal bars a, pawls n, ratchetjs my, pulleys e, and Weights d, with cords attached, as described, perpendicular bars f and g, and Windlass i., as described, constructed and arranged as and for the purposes set forth.,

A FREDERICK WILLG.

Witnesses:

Tiros. H. HU'rcHINs, F. L. CAGWIN. 

